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Re: cauchy principal value double integral

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• Subject: [mg128915] Re: cauchy principal value double integral
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• Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 04:09:30 -0500 (EST)
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On Monday, December 3, 2012 2:18:53 AM UTC-6, Alex Krasnov wrote:
> I am unclear how to interpret the following result (Mathematica 8.0.4):
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> In:	Integrate[1/(x^2+y^2), {x, -1, 1}, {y, -1, 1}, PrincipalValue -> True]
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> Out:	-4*Catalan
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> How is Cauchy principal value defined in this case? Since the integrand is 
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> circularly symmetric around (0,0), excluding a shrinking neighborhood 
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> around (0,0) is not useful. Perhaps this result is merely an issue with 
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> option handling for multiple integrals?
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> 
> Alex

That does indeed look like a bug.

Daniel Lichtblau
Wolfram Research

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